Organ transplants
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Detroit, Mich
Greenhaven Press
2007
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Table of Contents:
- The urgent need for organ donors raises complex ethical questions / President's Council on Bioethics
- Being a kidney donor was a good choice for me / Virginia Postrel
- Compensating the families of organ donors would be effective and ethical / David E. Harrington and Edward A. Sayre
- People who need transplants should be allowed to purchase organs / Sally Satel
- The sale of organs would undermine fundamental values / Francis L. Delmonico
- The organ donation system should be based on quid pro quid / David J. Undis
- Organ donors should be reimbursed for their expenses / Scott Klarenbach, Amit X. Garg, Sorina Vlaicu
- Criteria for defining death for potential organ donors should be more stringent / John B. Shea
- Better oversight of the U.S. transplant system is needed / Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
- The involuntary harvesting of organs is a crime against humanity / Wang Wenyi
- Condemned prisoners should not be considered as organ donors / UNOS Ethics Committee
- Convicts should not be automatically excluded from receiving transplants / W. Victoria Lee
- Animal-to-human transplants carry the risk of spreading diseases / Luis Fabregas
Introduction to organ transplantation